cool "Nobody thought to check this" bug: while being on Windows Vista will send you to the fallback Chrome download page for XP and Vista, the download link actually tries downloading the latest ChromeSetup.exe, which
- flags SmartScreen
- is "not a valid application"
- has an "invalid signature"
- flags SmartScreen
- is "not a valid application"
- has an "invalid signature"
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anyone at Google seeing this and want to fix it for us Vista-heads? 👀
on Windows XP, you get sent installers/win_xp/ChromeSetup.exe, ~2MB from 2020
on Windows 7 and 8.1, you get sent installers/win_7/ChromeSetup.exe, ~2MB from 2024
on Windows 10, 11, and Vista, you get sent installers/ChromeSetup.exe, ~10MB and from 2025
they really did just forget